Monday, June 27, 2011

Fells Art Show Images

These are my images that were accepted into the "Celebration of the Fells Art Show". All three of these images have been exhibited previously in juried exhibitions. The top image is "First Snow" and was a "People's Choice" winner in the 2010 Krappy Kamera show. The middle image is "Hemlock Pool" and has been in three juried shows. The bottom image is "Vernal Pool"and has been in two shows previously. These images had been retired from competition and were happily living on the wall of my office at home but were brought out one more time for this very local show which is in a gallery only a mile or so from my home. The opening is Friday, July 1, from 7-9 pm at the Beebe Estate Gallery in Melrose, MA.
If you are local, come on by and say hi.

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It's a sad fact of life that I can recite line after line of dialogue from the films "This is Spinal Tap" and "Airplane!". But next to those fabulously funny quotes, my favorite bit of dialogue is from a late 1950's film that I have never seen.

In the film "Funny Face", Audrey Hepburn, as a fashion model, says to Fred Astaire, playing the part of a fashion photographer, "Trees are beautiful. Why don't you photograph trees?"

Astaire responds, "I do what I do for a living. It has to do with supply and demand. You'd be amazed how small the demand is for pictures of trees."

Astaire's quote still rings true today. For me, the supply and demand part involves sitting in front of a computer most days doing post-production and retouching on very hi-res digital photographic files generated by some pretty talented professional photographers.

But in my spare time, I take a lot of photos of trees and such with very low-tech plastic "toy" film cameras, like Holgas and various Diana clones.